good for you Sean! ( except for the getting up at 630 - ugh)

I am trying to decide if I am sick , possibly sick , or what. I was very sore yesterday - and had a teeny tiny fever last night. Way less sore today, no fever, a cough, but only occasionally ( but deep) and a hollow head. so bizzare.

I lied teeny tiny fever is back

You go, Sean.

I know that feeling, Beth. You start wishing you would either get definitely sick or well.

I am having a colonoscopy Monday. Don't wanna, but I'm pretty inured to medical procedures. Today in the grocery store was hard, though. Sunday I can only have clear liquids, hard candy, popsicles and jello, and none of them can be red. I don't think of myself as picky, but the overlap between things I like and those requirement turns out to be very small, particularly when you throw in avoiding HFCS. Popsicle-like things run heavily to red. I finally dug out a package of lime ones, hiding behind the coconut. I loathe jello. I have white grape juice, ginger ale and butterscotch. Is it my imagination, or are the number of kinds of hard candy made with sugar dwindling? It seems to mostly be down to Werther's, cheap butterscotch and peppermint.

Yay Sean!

Ugh, beth. I hate that "am I sick?" feeling.

I've been reading up on speech therapy options. I know that most people say that my speech problems aren't too noticable, but I know that I do things like purposely phrase what I say to avoid words that I know will cause trouble. Spelling out my last name over the phone is a pain -- there are two letters in there that I can't pronounce. There are lots of times when something that should be simple gets much more complicated because I can't say what I want to say.

I think I'm thinking about this more now because I'm taking a sign language class, and I noticed that I'm raising my hand to volunteer with answers WAY more often than I ever have in any other class I've ever taken, and I think it's because I don't have to stop and think about whether the answer has any words that I can't say.

I went through twelve years of speech therapy as a kid, to get to this point. I'm wondering whether more will be able to correct the problems that are left. Also, it looks pricey. But I'm pondering.

Sounds like a good investment, Hil, if you could remove that big layer of self-consciousness that lays over your speech. Wouldn't it be nice to not have to think about it first?

I'd say do it, Hil - even if it only made a 50% difference.

I'm glad some of you know that 'Am I really sick? ' feeling. DH doesn't know it, he powers through until it is obvious. I used to do that. But with diabetes and asthma - it makes more sense to pay attention sooner.

Beth, I haven't seen you in a while, and yet I have that ick. Just took my temp - 100.3, Full on body aches. I thought it was PMS - but since when does that include a fever?

Fever is now 101.7. WTF?

And my fever kills the thread.

Tis at 100.6 now.

{{{Suzi}}} Take some tylenol and plenty of liquids. Feel better.

We're drinking wine, eating leftover chili and watching POTC2 tonight.

Well, I don't need to think about the money issue for speech therapy. Just talked to my parents, and they said that, if I do decide to go, they'll pay for it.

Just need to do my usual taking several weeks to ponder now.